[GENERAL] Network Flow Schema + Bulk Import/Updates

2005-09-21 Thread Michael L. Artz
I'm fairly new at Postgres and had some basic design questions. My problem is basically that I want to do large bulk imports (millions of rows) into a large DB (billions of rows) where there might already be data that needs to be updated instead of inserting a new row. I read a similar post a

Re: [GENERAL] Network Flow Schema + Bulk Import/Updates

2005-09-21 Thread Michael L. Artz
Tony Wasson wrote: You can use the merge trigger below to do this. You'll need to add some code to update the count. You may also benefit from using the new constraint exclusion (table partitioning) in PostgreSQL 8.1. I am not sure if CE works against the inet datatype -- if not, try converting

[GENERAL] Pg + perl + apache

2004-02-15 Thread Michael L. Artz
I'm having some odd issues, but I'm not sure exactly the cause of them, but postgres is the component in the system that is throwing the errors, so I thought I'd start here. I have built a web application that uses postgres (7.3.2) as its backend, with the front being an Apache2/mod_perl